Sentence examples for close to tragedy from inspiring English sources
It's as close to tragedy as biology gets.
"Sunset" (1983) is altogether elegiac, and — though its tone is wonderfully muted — often close to tragedy.
It confirms my belief that the best farces are often too close to tragedy to be funny.
"As I understood it," Orton wrote, "farce originally was very close to tragedy, and differed only in the treatment of its themes — themes like rape, bastardy, prostitution".
The Merchant of Venice (c. 1596 97) uses a double plot structure to contrast a tale of romantic wooing with one that comes close to tragedy.
LaValle can do pity and terror, as some older masters could: The horror of "The Ballad of Black Tom" comes close to tragedy.
You can laugh at it now and then, but its overall impact is closer to tragedy, and overwhelming.
Their melancholy poetry transmuted an overriding mood of self-pity into something deeper and closer to tragedy.
The play's final, more somber notes land with surprising force, but the path from comedy to something closer to tragedy gets a bit rocky at times.
Then it met with something closer to tragedy: the producers of the film, Sydney Pollack and Anthony Minghella, died within a few months of each other, Minghella unexpectedly.
Acrid comedy has suddenly curdled into something closer to tragedy, and you can't really put your finger on exactly when or precisely why.
